Henry Obinugwu

Defined product strategy and requirements for FX and blockchain-enabled stablecoin payments, leading launches that reached at least $180M monthly processing volume post-launch. Coached associate product team members and maintained stakeholder and provider relationships to drive product delivery.

Led Central PMO initiatives for Horizon Europe Alternatives, managing PMO activities, refining backlogs, and developing process flows to coordinate cross-functional workstreams.

Owned ad tech SaaS product initiatives, led KSC projects to improve ROI and response times, and drove feature delivery that produced a 27% faster response to requests and ~3% MoM biddable revenue uplift.

Part of the project setup team for Horizon Europe competitions, delivering process improvements, dashboards, and reporting that improved monitoring accuracy by 25% and reduced reporting turnaround by 70%.

Facilitated cross-functional delivery for FinTech SaaS features (Open Banking, 3DS, Document Upload), reducing backlog by 25%, increasing development efficiency by 10%, and raising stakeholder satisfaction by 20%.

Founded and led product vision for a crowdfunding eCommerce/bidding platform, launching mobile apps and driving growth strategies that achieved 200% month-over-month growth post-launch.

Led product development for hardware (NetPremise LTE/5G), authored PRDs, managed engineering and manufacturing partners, raised seed funding, and achieved 1,000+ unit sales in EMEA with patents filed.

Led innovation and product ownership for a FinTech tokenization platform, delivering a beta processing over $2M in transactions and supporting a seed raise of over $50,000; core engine was later acquired.

Managed LMS upgrade project and provided technical learning systems support, documenting issues, mitigating risks, and launching an updated LMS to improve training delivery.

Operated daily data-center monitoring and IT infrastructure for cloud services, deployed in-house applications, managed backups, and reduced downtime by 40% through pre-emptive solutions.

Completed the Perplexity AI Business Fellow fellowship in 2025 focusing on AI business applications and strategy.

Completed an executive education program in Product Management and Strategy in 2022.

Completed the Business Analysis Practice program with BCS in 2014 focused on business analysis methodologies and practices.

Completed PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner training in 2013 covering project management processes and best practices.

Grade: First Class

Awarded a B.Sc. (Hons) in Information Technology for Business with First Class honors in 2013.

Earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics & Statistics between 2005 and 2010.